Last fall we had a full cord delivered and there were 4 stacks of wood piled 5 and 1/2 feet high between these poles. I kept the thermostat set at about 65 all winter and with my getting home early in the day from work, was able to start the fireplace most days and keep our house pretty comfortable. I was happy that we never had any gas bills over $100 this past winter and that's the first time for many years. In the end it probably all comes out the same though, because if I remember correctly, that cord of wood delivered last October cost us around $185. Oh well, Sophie and I enjoyed quite a few nice naps on the couch in front of the toasty fireplace. :-)Even though there's still a lot of snow in the backyard, we can really notice where it's melted quite a bit. However, in the spring, this isn't always a good thing, as you can see by what's starting to show up underneath my birdfeeders. Here's what below where my 2 thistle seed feeders hang on the deck. Yuck!
And here are a couple more feeders in the backyard. Double Yuck!!
I can already see that I've got lots of cleaning up to do this spring (as soon as I can get my wheelbarrow out of this snowbank!)
Melting snow is also revealing quite a large number of Sophie's "deposits" from the long winter. Definitely time to start watching where I'm walking again!
After my last disastrous knitting project, I decided to start a new hat pattern on Sunday afternoon. This is "Quincy" from Jared Flood's "Made in Brooklyn" pattern book.
I really love the way this hat turned out! (keepin' it for myself too!) The main part of the hat is knitted in a strip, then you give it one twist and graft the ends together (so it becomes a tube). Then you pick up stitches around the top edge of the tube and knit the top of the hat. I love the beautiful details of the top and the I-cord edging all the way around.
I really love all of Jared's designs in this pattern book.....the hardest thing is going to be deciding which pattern I want to knit next!
Happy Meteorological Spring Everyone!
5 comments:
I almost saw the sun today. Come on spring. I love the hat you knitted. It is very stylish. Happy Spring.
Cool hat! Your yard looks like mine under the bird feeders, but I do have the presence of raccoons and opposum who feast under the feeders at nite. They sure do clean up. I'm sure there will be a lot of shells left from the seeds. There will be a never ending supply of "cat doo" to clean up too.
MOM
Love the hat and the signs of SPRING. I am ready for it.
LOVE that hat Ruthie! Congratulations on your beginnings of spring, even if it has revealed work to be done...lol!
I think we've got more snow melting going on than you do! Our mild winter has left us with a good supply of wood yet. Personally, I think our state of Minnesota was somehow turned upside down when no one was looking.
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